Slavonski Brod is situated in the East of Croatia - Slavonia region. It is the center of Brodsko - Posavska County, one of the six Slavonian counties. The city covers an area of over 50.14 km2, with its population of 64,611 people.
The city has developed at a strategically important position. The bridge over the Sava River connects the Republic of Croatia with Bosnia and Herzegovina. Brod is situated at an important highway and railway junction (E70, A3 Zagreb-Lipovac-Belgrade highway and Zagreb-Vinkovci-Belgrade railway). The railroad and highway in the northern part of the town connect Western Europe with the Middle East. In adition, a new modern highway on the international transit route 5C is under construction; it will connect Northern Europe and Hungary with Croatia (Slavonia region), Bosnia and Herzegovina and again Croatia (coastal region of Dalmatia). With completion of this route, the area of the town will become one of the major highway intersections in this part of Europe connecting West to East and North to South.
The city's economy is based on metal- and wood-processing, textile and leather industry, building material, foodstuffs, viticulture and fruit growing etc. Slavonski Brod is a home to Đuro Đaković consortium, one of the most efficient metal industries in the south-east European region. It consists of number of factories producing very diverse products, such as locomotives, trams, wagons, bridges, industrial plants, nuclear and process reactors, car industry parts, heavy armed vehicles, agricultural machinery etc. Most of the products are exported to many different countries: Germany, Netherlands, France, Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria and Belgium.